Work-charged employees demand revision of pay
DIMAPUR, MARCH 6 (MExN): The All Nagaland Inter-Departmental Field Staff Associations Joint forum has written to the Chief Minister of Nagaland, reiterating its call for revision of pay for work charged employees and regularization of their services, as per the order of the Guwahati High Court, passed on March 5, 2012.
The application was jointly appended by representatives of the All Nagaland Inter Departmental Joint Forum, All Nagaland PWD Field Workers Association, All Nagaland PWD Mechanical Field Staff Association, All Nagaland Field Staff Association PHED, Town Planning Works Division Offices UDD Dimapur and Kohima, Medical Department, Police Engineering Project, ANEFWA, I&FC and the Industry and Commerce Department.
The application to the CM stated that over the last 23 years, the pay and allowances of the work charged employees have not been revised, despite the fact that salaries and allowances of other categories of employees have been revised two times, during the same period of time, in consonance with the escalating cost of living. It stated that the “pendency of contempt proceedings” have had no impact on the attitude of the concerned officials of the Government in the implementation of the orders passed by the Guwahati High Court, “tending to cause loss of faith on all branches of the Government, the Executive, the Legislature, and the Judiciary.”
It lamented that despite recommendations submitted by the Work-Charged & Causal Employees Commission, following the High Court order, and Cabinet Sub-Committee Minutes thereof, the said recommendations have been “left neglected by the State Cabinet till date.”
In view of this, it stated that the work-charged employees and their dependants in the state are “subjected to hapless and helpless conditions.” The organizations further cautioned that unless the Nagaland state government passes appropriate orders within a period of seven days, the dependants of the work-charged employees in the entire state would “come out to the streets in all the district headquarters” and demonstrate against the “indifferent attitude” of the state to their “legitimate rights.”
